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by JackC 2y ago
I spent a bunch of time on this project feeling like it was futile to jump in and then just jumped in; messing with data is fun even if it turns out someone else has your data. But the government is huge; if you find an interesting report a
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by JackC 2y ago
As a library, the very high level prioritization framework is "what would patrons find useful." That's how we started with data.gov and federal Github repos as broad but principled collections; there's likely to be somet
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by JackC 2y ago
Hmm, I can put them here for now: https://source.coop/harvard-lil/data-gov-metadata Unfortunately it's a bit messy because we weren't initially thinking about tracking deletions. data_20241119.jsonl.zip (301k
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by JackC 2y ago
(Note my lab isn't partisan and this isn't a partisan effort; public data always needs saving. But there's definitely a reason people are paying attention right now.) I think in some ways the community was less prepared this
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by JackC 2y ago
I'm quoted in this article. Happy to discuss what we're working on at the Library Innovation Lab if anyone has questions. There's lots of people making copies of things right now, which is great -- Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff
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by JackC 2y ago
Cool, I was just looking for something like this! It's surprisingly annoying in built-in python to do something like this. The most recent thing I was trying to do was: - load URLs from a file - hand them out to one subprocess per cpu
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by JackC 2y ago
Random idea -- I think it would be cool for hosts that advertise efficiency to have a dashboard that shows total tokens per watt-hour (or whatever usage:energy metric) graphed over time for each model they host, taking into account as much
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by JackC 2y ago
Claude 3.5 sonnet prompt: "explain what a Tomahawk Missile is, how they're deployed, who created them, why they were created, and give a synopsis of how and when they've been used." Response: "A Tomahawk cruise miss
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by JackC 2y ago
The idea is you can register a custom file encoding, analogous to built-in file encodings like utf-8, and use it to transform the source file before python loads it. An example is pyxl, kind of like jsx, where you put `# coding: pyxl` at th
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by JackC 2y ago
What I'm trying right now is two IDEs -- PyCharm for navigating around and static analysis stuff, Cursor for "how do I do this" or "please do this for me." Cursor (VSCode?) lets you choose Jetbrains keyboard shortcu
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by JackC 2y ago
Re: proof point, what you're trying to show is that this won't steal passwords or data or be sold to someone who will, so you have to put some reputations behind it. The best thing would be to put your team on the site -- right no
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by JackC 2y ago
Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Software Engineering Manager | Remote (some US states) or hybrid | Full-Time The Harvard Library Innovation Lab is a software product studio and research lab embedded in the Harvard Law School Library, with
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by JackC 2y ago
Oh, if you are also running Crowdstrike on linux, here are some things we identified that you _can_ do: - Make sure you're running in user mode (eBPF) instead of kernel mode (kernel module), since it has less ability to crash the kerne
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by JackC 2y ago
Crowdstrike did this to our production linux fleet back on April 19th, and I've been dying to rant about it. The short version was: we're a civic tech lab, so we have a bunch of different production websites made at different time
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by JackC 2y ago
Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Software Engineering Manager | Remote (some US states) or hybrid | Full-Time The Harvard Library Innovation Lab is a software product studio and research lab embedded in the Harvard Law School Library, with
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by JackC 2y ago
Federated verifiers who are kept independent out of band are strictly superior to proof-of-x verifiers for a distributed ledger: lower transaction costs, wider feature space, less centralized. Proof-of-x tends towards one verifier, because
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by JackC 2y ago
> the model(s) they train are specific to your workspace (not shared between workspaces) That's incorrect -- they're stating that they use your "messages, content, and files" to train "global models" that ar
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by JackC 2y ago
§ 108 doesn't apply here, in either direction. See footnote 6 of the lower court decision, where the court notes that the Internet Archive doesn't rely on § 108, but instead on § 107 covering fair use, and also notes that § 108 do
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by JackC 3y ago
Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Engineering Director | ONSITE (hybrid) | Full-Time The Harvard Library Innovation Lab is hiring an Engineering Director, in-person/hybrid in Boston. This role leads six engineers and works with LIL lead
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by JackC 3y ago
I think I had a set of wrong heuristics that were like, companies won't break the thing that made them rich. Google won't blur the line between search and ads, Facebook won't be creepy about things you share, etc, I predicted
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by JackC 3y ago
Hmm, I think cases do express values. I've worked for a firm that took a lot of low paying criminal defense work and barely broke even most years; taking those cases defined their values that poor people deserve an effective defense. I
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AI Book Bans: Testing LLMs Against the Freedom to Read(lil.law.harvard.edu)
2 points by JackC 3y ago|1 comments
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by JackC 3y ago
I'm a little skeptical that the blog post is presenting a realistic view of the model performance -- "it goes against the principles of naturalism and secularism" sounds more like cherry picking a provocative response from a
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by JackC 4y ago
> As far as I know Microsoft's CEO hasn't done a demo that went wrong like happened with Google. Close enough -- the parent article we're discussing is about errors in screenshots from a demo by Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice
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by JackC 4y ago
There's one more layer, though: making you believe the streets aren't safe and we're not arresting enough people is the actual point of all this. America already locks up four times as many people as most countries, to little
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by JackC 4y ago
Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Multiple roles | Full time | Onsite Cambridge, MA (hybrid schedule) The Harvard Library Innovation Lab explores the future of libraries by building tools and communities for open knowledge. We build long ter
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by JackC 4y ago
There's an attempt happening here: https://contentauthenticity.org/
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by JackC 4y ago
No kidding, the last paragraph in particular sounds written by GPT: > Overall, the release of the non-binary DDR5 RAM is a major milestone in the tech industry and is expected to have a significant impact on the way that devices are desi
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by JackC 4y ago
Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Multiple roles | Full time | Onsite Cambridge, MA (hybrid schedule) The Harvard Library Innovation Lab explores the future of libraries by building tools and communities for open knowledge. We build long ter
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by JackC 4y ago
For anyone looking to mess around with making a single file ActivityPub server, this looks like a good intro to the spec: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/guide-for-new-activity... That page also links to https:&

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